Researchers Discover "Holy Grail" of Optical Computing

With the breakthrough, researchers were able to cut light down to fit into spaces a mere 10 nm, 20 times smaller than ever before. The space was a mere five times the width of a single piece of DNA, a size previously thought infeasible to shrink light to. Rupert Oulton, research associate in the group led by mechanical engineering Professor Xiang Zhang, stated of the discovery, “This technique could give us remarkable control over light and that would spell out amazing things for the future in terms of what we could do with that light.”